/lit/ - Literature

>Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Agree?

>An accurate taste in poetry, and in all the other arts, Sir Joshua
>Reynolds has observed, is an acquired talent, which can only be
>produced by severe thought, and a long continued intercourse
>with the best models of composition. This is mentioned not with
>so ridiculous a purpose as to prevent the most inexperienced
>reader from judging for himself; but merely to temper the
>rashness of decision, and to suggest that if poetry be a subject on
>which much time has not been bestowed, the judgment may be
>erroneous, and that in many cases it necessarily will be so.